Pressure the Democrats--now!

Bruce Gagnon is a smart man

While Rahm Emanuel tries to dig its grave with a backhoe, Gagnon asks rhetorically,

So what does the peace movement do now?

We must continue to call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. We must call for a 50% cut in military spending and conversion of the military industrial complex. We must call for an end to Star Wars research and development funding which now stands at about $10 billion a year.

We must also call for investigations of Bush-Cheney for impeachable offenses. We must call for repeal of the Patriot Act and the recent Military Commissions Act - the torture bill.

We have to call out loudly and strongly for universal national health care and for new federal election laws that sets one national standard to ensure fair voting.

There are many more things that must now be advanced by the peace, justice, environmental, labor, and women's movements. And we must be impatient with the Democrats.

Otherwise, it'll take no time at all for the Democrats to play directly into Bush's bloody hands.

In fact, it's already happening under the sleazy guidance of Emanuel and Nancy Pelosi. Firedoglake describes how Emanuel is busy ``blanketing the establishment media to argue yesterday's election results were a victory for conservative `blue dog' Dems, and emphatically not representative of any growing progressive movement.''

See Rabid Lambs, Not Blue Dogs, Won the Election for a good reader explaining exactly why Emanuel and Pelosi are wrong.